Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33261, James Frost, Mass.

SERVICE
on Frost, James
NUMBER
S. 33261
CONTENTS

13,462.
Massachusetts
James Frost
of Cambridge in the state of Massachusetts who was a Lt. of Artillery in the regiment commanded by Colonel Flowers of the Mass line, for the term of during the War
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 20 Dollars per month, to commence on the 15 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 23 of July 1819 and sent to Hon Timothy Fuller Boston Mass:
Arrears to 4th of Mar: 1819. 10mo \frac{16}{30} \frac{4}{31} 213.24
Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sep: 1819 120-
200 10.66 2.58
$ 333.24
213.24
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Discontinued
Annual subscription sent to the applicant care of Timothy Fuller Esq Cambridge Mass 23 Mar 1822

Lt. James Frost, case.

The Honorable District Judge is humbly requested to authenticate the following declaration & affidavit & also the Certificate of the Secretary of Mas- sachusetts, & to forward them to the Secretary of War of the United States agreeably to law for the purpose of obtaining my pension. James Frost James Frost of Cambridge in the
State of Massachusetts on oath declare That I engaged in the service in the contin- ental army in the revolutionary war on the 27 th of February A. D. 1777 as a tin plate worker & was stationed at Springfield where Major Eayres com- manded four or five companies of ar- tificers belonging to Col. Flower's reg- iment of artificers - The company of tin plate workers to which I belonged was one of these companies, & I was appointed in August 1779 master of the said company of tin plate workers in

The plan of William Lowder who was dismissed the service, & I had the rank & pay of a Lieutenant commanding the company of tin plate workers, no captain being appointed as the com- pany was small, & my pay was ten pounds per month - I never received any commission but was informed by Capt. Chapman who commanded one of the abovenamed companies of artificers that he had received his & that mine was made out & several others in the office of the Board of War at Philadelphia & that he saw them, & that they would soon be sent - why they were not sent was never ascertained - I contin- ued in the service as a Lieutenant in the corps abovenamed till after the peace with Great Britain & then was dismissed with the rest of the army by order of the Congress

of the United States -
I further testify that I am unable by reason of my reduced circumstances & support myself & am under the necessity of applying to my country for support - James Forrest
Massachusetts District ss. } Baton 15. April A.D. 1818 }
Sworn to before me
M c Davis
Dist. Judge Mass. Dist.

James Frost of Cambridge - Mass.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
MIDDLESEX, ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Concord, within and for the County of Middlesex, on the second Monday of September A. D. 1820
Before the Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Esquire, Chief Justice , and
WILLIAM WETMORE, and } Associate Justices STEPHEN MINOT, Esquires, } of said Court.
In open Court here, being a Court of Record for said Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, James Frost resident of Cambridge in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 13. 462 now in his possession, of which the following is a true copy, to wit,
“ WAR DEPARTMENT.....REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM. ”
“ I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th March, 1818, James Frost late a Lieutenant in the army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of twenty dollars per month, to commence on the fifteenth day of April one thousand eight hundred and 23 “ Given at the War Office of the United States, this 23 d day of July one thousand eight hundred and nineteen [ L. S. ]
J. C. CALHOUN, Secretary of War,”
appears, and exhibits to the Court here a Schedule, subscribed by him, as follows, to wit,
SCHEDULE,
containing his whole estate and income, his necessary clothing and bedding excepted, to wit,
  11 Six old chairs valued at 40 cents $ 2. 40   One Looking Glass 4/6 .75   One cherry tree Table 4/6 .75   One pine board Chest 3/ .50   One iron Spider 2/6 .42   Two copper plated table Spoons 3/ 1.00   Four do. tea Spoons 4/6 .75   One bolt $ 30. 30.00   8 1/2 acres of Land 5 acres at $75 3 1/2 at $50. 480.00   3 Lons of Hay at 40 cents per cub 24.00   $540.57 
James Frost.

And the said James Frost of said Cambridge aged sixty six years having been first duly sworn ac- cording to law doth on his oath make the follow- ing declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress of the 18 th March 1818 and of the 1 st of May 1820 - that is to say the said Frost is weak & infirm at times afflicted severely with the rheumatism so as to be rendered lame and generally unable to work except some of the easier & lighter kinds - he has no wife & only one child a daughter who is a widow with six children and quite unable to support herself & them much less to give any assistance to support this Declarant - That he has not for many years worked at the trade of a tin worker or any other trade and has neither health nor means to do so - That the said declarant is unable to obtain from the small tenement occupied by him a comfortable supply of the necessaries of life as he is obliged to give nearly half the proceeds to procure the neces- sary tillage and labour which he is unable to perform himself by reason of his weakness & infirmities. James Frost.,
7 (Middlesex) Ps. C.C.C. Pleas, Sept. T. 1820. Then the a- bove named James Frost made oath that the a- foresaid schedule & statement by him subscribed are true, before me Stephen Minot Judge of said court.,

and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Stephen Minot a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
// I, James Frost do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," passed on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property, or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me; nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed. So help me GOD. James Frost.
Middlesex ss. C. C. C. P. September Term, A. D. 1820
Then the abovenamed James Frost took and subscribed the aforewritten Oath before me,
Stephen Minot, Judge of said Court. //
I, ABRAHAM BIGLOW, Clerk of the Court aforesaid, do hereby certify, that the foregoing Oath, and Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is five hundred & forty dollars & fifty seven cents.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Cambridge, in said County of Middlesex, on this 30 th day of Sept r 1820.
Attr.
Abraham Biglow

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James Fleet Lieut Rev War
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[Arrangement of 1879.]
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MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT, ss.
20 April 1819.
I AM satisfied that the above named, James Frost by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, is in need of assistance from his Country for support.
W. Davis { District Judge U. S. Massachusetts Dist.
TO THE SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR.
MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT, ss.
Boston June 12 A. D. 1818
IT appearing to my satisfaction, that James Frost subscriber to the annexed declaration, sworn to before me, did serve in the revolutionary war against the common enemy, as stated in said declaration, I now transmit the testimony in the case, with the proceedings had thereon, to the Secretary of the department of war, pursuant to the directions of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war;" the testimony and proceedings in the premises being the declaration aforesaid, with the accompanying documents marked A together with this certificate.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the District Court of the United States for this District to be hereunto affixed.
W. Davis { Judge of the District Court U. S. Massachusetts District.

Public Service
Free
Hon. J. C. Calhoun Esq. Secretary at War
Washington
Recd. Dec. 10 Feb. 1842 Ms. A. 1. 1. 150

- Writ.
May 13 1836 by Col. Dyl

Washington. 13 April 1836.
Sir,
Mr. Duval having a letter from one of the heirs of Mr. Frost, late of Massachusetts and a Pensioner under the act of 1818, & having requested me to ascertain whether Frost was entitled to commutation I will thank you to inform me when & in what way he left the service. - The number of Frost's pension certificate is 5920.
I am very respectfully, Your Obed. Servt.
Francis A. Dickinson.
James L. Edwards Esq. Commr. of Pensions.

Honble J. C. Calhoun Esq. Secretary of War
Washington

Cambridge Feb y 13 th 1822
To Hon. John C. Calhoun Secretary at War of the United States Sir I write this to you at the particular desire of James Frost of this place sure to fore a pensioner of the United States. I am requested to inclose to you his application to be placed again on the Pension list in correspondence with the late law in that case made & provided. I am also requested to state to you that this ap- :plication was to have been made early in January but the applicant on the last day of Dec r or early in January last, was severely wounded in the head & body by an accident, and has been under my care for his cure: & inadvertently failed of attending to it at an early opportunity I cannot pretend that I am known to you Sir but I am known to the Secretary of State to Charles Bulfinch Esq and Mr. Holman in the Navy Office. And am your obed t Serv t
Tim o L. Garrison

Mr Frost -
$20 per mo:
Adm o .
Hon. Simo: Fuller, Boston, Mass.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
By His Excellency JOHN BROOKS, Esquire, Governor and Commander in Chief in and over said Commonwealth.
TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
Know ye, That,
Adon Bradford Esq r
is Secretary of
in the said Commonwealth, duly constituted and commissioned, and that to his Acts and Attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given in and out of Court.
In Testimony whereof, I have caused the Public Seal of the Commonwealth to be hereunto affixed, this twenty eighth day of January A. D. 1819, and in the forty third year of the Independence of the United States of America.
By His Excellency the Governor.
Adon Bradford
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Comments of Massachusetts Seurants Department, Jan'y 28, 1819
By this I certify, that it appears from the lists or rolls of the Massachusetts troops (which were a part of the American army in the war of the Revolution) now remaining in this Department, that James Frost was a Lieutenant of Simmon, in Major Jos. Eayers' Com- pany & Col. Flowers Regiment of artillery artificers - that he enlisted for the term "during the war," July 27, 1777, & continued in said service till Decr. 31, 1780 - & that our re- cords are for later date -
Wlden Bradford
Secy. of Common- to
for the term "during the war," interlined A. Bradford Secy. of Com.

Dr James Frost Lt of Finneran in Maj t Jos. Eayers Camp y Col Flowers Reg t of Artillery artificers. Cr.
   £ s d     1779   June To cash paid him from proceeds of State Lottery, value 1 17 5   To 3 shirts, 3 pair shoes, 3 pair hose, supplied by the State at the regulated price 3 13 0   To his proportion of small stores sold us in camp, at regulated price, deducting the value of what he paid towards them 7 19 0   NB To a bounty of £ — paid him by, or in behalf of the town of — value 0 0 0   To 34 months 4 days wages paid him by the Continent at — per month £ 361. value 58 41 0   To amount of articles supplied his family at the regulated price by the town of — deducting the value of what he paid towards them 0 0 0   To money £ 150 paid August 1779 — value 7 7 0   1779   Dec. 31 To Balance 79 17 0   71 10 5   153 12 0   5 m 4 d £ 6 — 30. 16   10 24 9 178. 11   3 6 10 37.   6 20 120.   £ 361  
The above balance £74. 10. 5 multiplied by 32 1/2 to make good the depreciation, is in current money, £ 2425. 15. 6 3/4
By his service from 27 th Feb y 1777 to 31 st Dec r 1779 is 34 months 11 days at 90 per month for which the nominal sum has been paid him by the Continent 153 12 0
Certified 27 th May 1 st 80
Copy from the Army Books Exam d Helen Bradford
Secy. of Com te of Map s